Step 1: Melting the Chocolate

First turn stove on to medium or around that. I just didn't want to burn the chocolate.

Next: add chocolate pieces to sauce pan. ( I broke mine into pieces to make it easier to melt)

Step 2: Adding Cherries and Chili

The next step is to add the cherries and the Chili.

I added about 1/3 of the bag of cherries to make sure that I had cherry flavor in each bite.

Then I added 1 tablespoon of the chili powder to start off with. You can add as much or as little as you want, but I wouldn't add too much because then it would take over the flavor of the chocolate and cherries.

Cook the chocolate and remember to continually stir to prevent burning. Cook and stir until it is completely melted and thoroughly mixed.

Yeah, as you've said below (author) if it starts to thicken while you are melting (and only metling, not 'cooking' - only ever use 'low'), it's burned. Chili-chocolate is the bomb. Thanks for the recipe!

yeah, I did kinda burn it. I have a double boiler but I couldn't find it, and I got impatient :S as far as spiciness, I put in about 2 tablespoons and its spicy. I'm going to do it again sometime and maybe only use 1 tablespoon. Even though it is spicy, it is really good! You just can't eat too much, too fast. Todd

If you don't want big circular slab'o'chocolate, an ice cube tray makes good squares (but test it first to make sure it won't melt with the heat). How did your mix turn out for spiciness/cherry-ness? If it was way too spicy and you should only use a teaspoon of chili, that is the sort of thing we should know :) Good instructions and photos- maybe pull back a bit with the closeups if using a phone camera to reduce the blurriness, or use macro mode (flower symbol) for close focus, but otherwise good work.